Previous Keynotes


2017


HRUMC XXIV (April 8, 2017 at Westfield State University, Westfield, MA) Noam Elkies Harvard How Many Possible Pieces of Music Are There?

2016


HRUMC XXIII (April 2, 2016 at St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT) Scott Aaronson Massachusetts Institute of Technology The P vs. NP Problem

2015


HRUMC XXII (April 11, 2015 at Union College, Schenectady, NY) Ron Rivest Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Growth of Cryptography

2014


HRUMC XXI & SDUMC IX Joint Meeting (April 26, 2014 at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY) Dr. Linda J. S. Allen Texas Tech Mathematical Modeling of Viral Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

2013


HRUMC XX (April 6, 2013 at Williams College in Williamstown, MA) Manjul Bhargava Princeton University How Likely is it for a Polynomial to Take on a Square Value?

2012


HRUMC XIX (April 21, 2012 at Western New England University in Springfield, MA) Ravi Vakil Stanford University The Mathematics of Doodling

2011


HRUMC XVIII (April 16, 2011 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY) Carl Pomerance Dartmouth College Order and Chaos

2010


HRUMC XVII (April 17, 2010 at Keene State College in Keene, NH) Erik Demaine Massachusetts Institute of Technology Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic

2009


HRUMC XVI (April 18, 2009 at Union College in Schenectady, NY) Erica Flapan Pomona College When Topology Meets Chemistry

2008


HRUMC XV (April 19, 2008 at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY) Jeff Weeks Canton, NY The Shape of Space

2007


HRUMC XIV (April 21, 2007 at Siena Collegein Loudonville, NY) Georgia Benkart University of Wisconsin at Madison Ladies of the Rings: A Tale of Science Non-fiction About Two Women and Their Magical Mathematics

2006


HRUMC XIII (April 8, 2006 at Westfield State College in Westfield, MA) Ken Ono University of Wisconsin Number Theory: Partitions and the Legacy of Dyson and Ramanujan

2005


HRUMC XII (April 30, 2005 at Williams College in Williamstown, MA) Ken Ribet University of California at Berkeley The Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem

2004


HRUMC XI (April 3, 2004 at Mt. Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA) Dr. Nancy Kopell Co-Director of: The Center for BioDynamicsBoston University Dynamical Systems of the Nervous System: Do Rhythms Help us Think?

2003


HRUMC X (April 12, 2003 at Union College in Schenectady, NY) Dr. Louis Gross University of TennesseeInstitute of Environmental Modeling Current and Future Challenges in Mathematical and Computational Biology

2002


HRUMC IX (April 27, 2002 at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY) Robert Devaney Boston University Chaos Games and Fractal Images

2001


HRUMC VIII (April 28, 2001 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY) Ingrid Daubechies Princeton University Surfing With Wavelets

2000


HRUMC VII (April 8, 2000 at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY) Peter Hilton State University of New York at Binghamton Some Generalizations of the Chinese Remainder Theorem

1999


HRUMC VI (April 17, 1999 at Siena College in Loudonville, NY) John Koch Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA. The Solution of the Four Color Problem

1998


HRUMC V (April 18, 1998 at Union College, Schenectady, NY) Joseph A. Gallian University of Minnesota, Duluth Touring a Torus

1997


HRUMC IV (April 12, 1997 at Williams College, Williamstown, MA) Benoit Mandelbrot Abraham Robinson Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Yale University The Beauty and Usefulness of Fractals

1996


HRUMC III (April 20, 1996 at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY) Ronald L. Graham AT&T’s Bell Labs Juggling Permutations of the Integers

1995


HRUMC II (April 8, 1995 at Siena College, Loudonville, NY) Jean Taylor Rutgers University Crystal Growth Models: Theory and Computation

1994


HRUMC I (April 4, 1994 at Siena College, Loudonville, NY) John H. Conway Princeton University FRACTRAN – a simple language for very simple computers